Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦

Dad. Husband. Former GOP congressman. Voted to impeach Trump. Now fighting for our democracy. Lt. Col. @AirNatlGuard (ret). Founder @thecountryfirst.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

BOMB MORE RUSSIAN REFINERIES!!

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Oh my lord. Come on guys

[Jake Sherman @JakeSherman]

HOUSE MINORITY WHIP KATHERINE CLARK's office sent out this note to members about the TCAVA vote:

"After publicly announcing a recorded vote on TCAVA, House Republicans asked if RM Takano and Democrats would agree to last minute engrossment corrections. While RM Takano and staff were evaluating these changes away from the podium, House Republicans called the vote up and passed it by voice within minutes — depriving RM Takano of the ability to even evaluate the proposed changes and ask for a recorded vote so Members could vote against the biggest cut to veterans benefits in US history."

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

As of now, @GovChristie is the only name being circulated as a GOP candidate in 2028 who didn’t enable trumps last two years of corruption.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

This is truly abhorrent. Pete Hegseth doesn't know how to conduct himself, even at The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.

His behavior is unbecoming of any visitor to the Tomb, let alone that which comes from a Secretary of Defense.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

https://t.co/PUOKaVD3hF

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

A year ago every ambitious Republican was fighting to stand next to Donald Trump. Now the ones hoping to run in 2028 are trying to get as far from him as they can. And they’re finding out it’s not that easy.

JD Vance is blaming the midterm wipeout on the war, like one bad decision explains everything. But he’s stuck. MAGA sees a traitor for breaking with Trump at all, and everybody else still sees Trump’s guy.

Marco Rubio is keeping his head down and hoping none of it sticks to him. Meanwhile Ron DeSantis and Ted Cruz get to swing from the outside.

And Trump says he might sit out the 2028 primary. Nobody would be more grateful than the Republicans eyeing the job. I break it all down in today’s show (link in reply).

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Sucks to suck Russia

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Russian sources are now reporting that two Ka-52 “Alligator” Attack Helicopters and an Mi-8 Multi-Role Helicopter were accidentally downed by friendly air-defense systems and hostile action while attempting to defend against last night’s large-scale Ukrainian drone attack against the Russian commercial seaport of Ust-Luga in the Leningrad Oblast. The crew of at least one of the helicopters was killed, with the status of the other two currently unknown, in what amounts to a significant loss for the Russian Aerospace Forces.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

lol. Russian diesel has too much blood in it (and actual crap that destroys engines)

[Brian Kilmeade @kilmeade]

Love this:
https://t.co/dD5MrqJvht

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

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[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

The next Congress will have to walk and chew gum at the same time to properly conduct investigations into this administration while also remaining resolved to their legislative duties.

With 250+ Democrats set to be sworn in for the 120th Congress, there will be plenty of personnel to handle the wide range of responsibility they have just been entrusted with.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

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[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Negotiate. Talk. Find a way forward. But don't reward aggression just because you want a headline announcing a peace deal.

The future of the Ukrainian people matters more than Trump's political timeline.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

So White House sends a “warning” to Dems about investigations?

They’re about to get a rude awakening at how much power they lost.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

https://t.co/YQRjT1VWQ7

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

You know what happened last week. Republicans got walloped in the midterms. And like anyone who’s suffered a big loss, the party is now working through its grief.

So today, we are going to look at the five stages of grief, MAGA edition.

Link in reply

[𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐊𝐨𝐦𝐬𝐚 🇪🇺🇵🇱🇺🇦 @Tweet4AnnaNAFO]

🔥Russians are panicking over Ukraine’s new refinery strike tactics. Drones reportedly switch targets mid-flight, and Trump can no longer simply pull the plug.

The Russian Telegram channel *Дневник Разведчика* (Intelligence Officer’s Diary, 147,800 subscribers) describes a major shift in Ukraine’s long-range drone campaign following the strikes on Kstovo, Samara and Yaroslavl.

Previously, Ukrainian drones were sent toward predetermined targets. If the first drones successfully hit a refinery unit, the rest continued toward the same target.

Now, according to the Russian channel, Ukrainian operators can monitor strikes in real time and redirect incoming drones while they are still in flight.

Once a primary distillation unit is hit, subsequent drones can be redirected toward storage tanks, cracking units, electrical substations or other critical equipment.

Instead of concentrating an entire wave on one target, Ukraine can distribute the damage across multiple parts of the refinery.

The Russians are describing something far more dangerous for their oil industry than simply larger drone attacks: the ability to adapt an entire strike while it is happening.

The channel attributes this capability to Israeli HiSKY SmartLight satellite communications terminals, which it says Ukraine is using as an alternative to Starlink.

It claims the terminals allow two-way communication over Russian territory, making it possible to adjust flight paths, identify air-defence positions and redirect drones around interception zones.

And then comes the most revealing part.

The Russian channel argues that American restrictions on Starlink have backfired spectacularly.

Its conclusion:

"Trump has simply lost his leverage over Kyiv’s long-range strikes."

And:

"Ukraine has slipped off the American leash and found a commercial alternative that the White House cannot switch off with a phone call."

That is coming from a Russian military channel, not Ukrainian propaganda.

Moscow is now discussing a scenario in which Ukraine can strike multiple critical refinery units in a single operation, adapt to Russian air defences in real time and continue its campaign without depending on American-controlled communications.

Putin has been trying to get Trump to restrain Ukraine’s refinery strikes. Now Russian military commentators are warning that even American pressure may no longer be enough.

The irony is extraordinary. Washington reportedly tried to limit Ukraine’s options. The Russians are now complaining that Ukraine has found a way around those limits.

The HiSKY deployment, electronic-warfare resistance and real-time retargeting capabilities are claims made by the Russian channel, not independently established technical facts. The attribution in the draft matters, especially for the claims about Trump’s leverage.

[Marc Polymeropoulos @Mpolymer]

‼️Oh we have us a doozy of a spy scandal! My Reporter and the Spy (RATS) partner in crime @michaeldweiss and I dissect the MSS op, how no action was taken as Trump was briefed but didn’t seem to care, the history of Cold War honey traps, and finally…my one crazy night in Zagreb when the hotel room next door opened and… oh boy😬…. A gloriously fun (but serious) episode of @BulwarkOnline Takes!…https://t.co/JAtRsRrQgU

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Multiple Ukrainian attack drones hit Russia's sprawling oil export terminal at the Baltic port of Ust-Luga tonight, setting it ablaze.

NASA's FIRMS detected a massive fire during its last overhead pass, with Russian authorities confirming the strike.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

@seankelly63

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Huge issue. Honestly she is right, there is no reason to have been late

[Acyn @Acyn]

Kamlager-Dove on Hegseth Impeachment: We knew that this vote was coming, so people should have gotten their raggedy selves up these steps to vote. There is no reason why we should have lost this vote because of attendance issues.

You know this man should not be in this position. That’s why he got up at 8 o’clock in the morning with his sorry self to plead to the American people.

So shame on folks who are not here. Because these people lost. They lost, and they still found a way to show up to table this bill. Shameful.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

I believe this.

But. Each vote has 15 minutes. Likely these members assumed the vote would go on for 45 min (like they usually do… hits 0 on the clock and they keep it open) and casually left to go vote, instead of being prepared and leaving immediately.

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

Tonight, House Republicans used a procedural motion to kill the impeachment of Pete Hegseth, by referring it to the Judiciary Committee.

Like other Members of Congress, Rep. Stansbury was blocked from entering the Capitol to vote due a traffic incident and a police escort of a bus during the vote. When she reached the chamber the vote had just gaveled out. She immediately filed a report of her vote of “NO” to the motion meant to kill the impeachment articles and refer them to the Judiciary Committee, as documented in the Congressional Record.

Pete Hegseth must be impeached now.